March 2015

2nd International Congress Hidden Hunger

3-6 March, 2015 - Stuttgart, Germany

The 2nd International Congress Hidden Hunger is a global meeting of scientists, field workers, members of NGOs and representatives from the government, public, private and civil sector. It will focus on causes and consequences of Hidden Hunger during early development as well as on counter-strategies. More

Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) 2015

9-10 March, 2015 - Abu Dhabi, UAE

GFIA is the major international exhibition and conference in the world focused on how technology is employed to produce more food using less resources. More

The 3rd UNCCD scientific conference: Combating drought, land degradation and desertification for poverty reduction and sustainable development

9-12 March, 2015 - Cancun, Mexico 

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) conference will address three major challenges:

(1) Diagnosis of constraints: How to best characterize and understand the vulnerability and adaptive capacities of ecosystems  and populations in affected regions?

(2) Responses: How to build efficiently on available knowledge, success stories and lessons learnt to promote implementation of better adapted, knowledge-based practices and technologies?

(3) Monitoring and assessment: What are the new monitoring and assessment methods available to evaluate the effectiveness of these practices and technologies that provide improved insights on whether or how their implementation should be scaled up? More

Third global science conference on climate-smart agriculture

16-18 March, 2015 - Montpellier, France

Climate smart agriculture is a way to achieve short and long term agricultural development priorities in the face of climate change and serves as an integrator to other development priorities. "The third Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)" is part of a process initiated in October 2010 in The Hague by the Government of the Netherlands. The objective was to simultaneously address the themes of agriculture, food security and climate change. More

Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change: New knowledge for renewed action 

19 March, 2015 – Paris, France 

The vision for this event is to share cutting-edge knowledge and evidence on closing the gender gap in farming under climate change, and to convene thinkers and doers in a forum to inspire renewed action. The format of the event will include several research presentations and a panel discussion. More

Experimental Biology 2015
Meeting of the American Society for Nutrition 

28 March – 1 April, 2015 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The Experimental Biology is a conference, where the American Society for Nutrition, a constituent society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), holds its annual scientific sessions. Nutritionists from across the world come together to share new developments in the field. More